Harlow boss Dave Barclay is a frustrated man. The loss of biggest trainer Paul Clarke to Towcester, who had around 30 runners at the track, will see seven-race cards at the Pinnacles track on Friday and Saturday.
They will include many empty traps and last weekend, a number of the runners appeared at both meetings.
The frustration comes because otherwise businesses is booming!
Barclay said: “We had one of our biggest ever crowds last Saturday, over 900 people through the gate and we had stopped taking bookings two weeks earlier.
“Friday wasn’t bad either, between three and four hundred. And they are spending! I don’t know what I am doing right but I am trying not to change it.”
Harlow’s fate might be one facing many other tracks. Very few trainers are coming through, and the old ones are not being replaced.
Barclay said: “In recent times we have lost Graham Sharp, Maurice Massey and John Davis. There are so many elderly trainers in this industry. It has to be a concern.
“I am planning to buy some greyhounds, build my own kennels and will be looking to employ a trainer. I wish I had done it a couple of years ago.”
